Valve



Nov. 2, 1937. I J. ZAGORSKI 7, 3

VALVE Original Filed Nov. 25, 1931 Patented Nov. 2, 1937.

UNITED STATES VAINE I Johann Zagorski, Berlin, Germany Original application November 25, 1931, Serial No. 577,349. Divided and this application July 23, 1936, Serial No. 92,097. In Germany November 25, 1930 2 Claims.

This application is a division of application Serial No. 577,349 filed November 25, 1931.

The invention concerns valveswhich are especially adapted for handling steam or gaseous or Ii liquid fluids under high pressure and high temperatures and for conserving absolute tightness,

even when constructed with large dimensions and when subjected to severe conditions of The valve has as its essential features. circu- 19 lar closing member joined to a piston of smaller diameter than; said member, and said piston is sealed in the valve casing by astufling box, covering the annular space between said piston and the wallof said casing, by a base ring exposed to '16 its largest extent to the interior of the valve.

By this construction the valve is so balanced as to be able to be opened and closed with relatively small forces and ample velocity even in large sizes, and the movable member can be .20 placed in position and dismantled for making the V valve seats accessible in very simple manner, due to the large opening of the valve casing closed by the corresponding large packing. Thus looseness is diminished as no separate valvebody head 25' flange needs .to be tightened. Very high temperatures (500 degrees Celsius) can be sustained by this new valve as the packing yields so iar' as the casing is deformed by heat, so that the seats remain tight.

30 A sleeve subdividing the packinginto two coaxial cylinders provides a special adaptation of the packing for large diameter diflerences be-' tween the closing memberand piston. I In valves having a longitudinally perforated 35 piston the invention uses asecond stufllng box for packing the valve operating spindle. in a closing head of the casing, and with advantage said closing head is identical with the closure member of the first stufling box. Also in this 40 case the interior 'of the valve remains easily 5 accessible for repairs and both stumng boxes 66 fluid acts only on the half area of the seating pis-- The figure is a section of a valve having a solid Q ton l0. On the other hand, when'the valve is opened, the fluid acts from below on the total area of the piston i and from above only on its annular portion projecting beyond the periphery of the piston I3, so that again half the axial force acting on the piston is balanced. The larger the piston I3 is, the larger is the percentage of balancing in case of opening thevalve and the smaller in case of closing the valve, and inversely.

For tightening said balancing piston, a stufling box is provided in the valve body I, consisting of a base ting I4, a packing I5 of asbestos or other compressible material, and a valve body head I6.

The packing I5 must be tight so that the pres- ,sure of .the fluid cannot go over the piston I3.

In this way, upon opening of the piston I3, there is no load applied on the piston from above through the pressure of the fluid, but only upon the rim of the piston I ll projecting beyond the piston I3. The surface of this projecting rim of the piston I0 is about half as great as the total cross-section of the piston I0, and the differential piston I0, I3 is. accordingly relieved of load to about 50% upon opening.

If thevalve is opened, the piston I0 is completely under load from below by the medium; fromabove, on the contrary, only about one-half,- namely, only up to the side walls of the piston I3. In viewof this the difierential piston l0, I3 is again relieved of load toabout 50%. The condition for this method of operation is, of course, that the flow of the medium takes place only from above. The base ring I! is exposed on -its lower side to the fluid pressure so asto be automatically pressed against the packing there- .by to tighten the latter. The seating piston I0 is so long that in full open position of the valve it presses against said base ring it for attaining absolute tightness'of the packing, the base ring having a recess I2 on its under face to receive the valve member I0 (seating piston) when the valve is opened fully. The valve body head It contains a screw nut and a threaded spindle I8 with a hand wheel for moving the differential piston III, I3, said spindle I8 ending in a collar 20.1oosely enclosed in said piston I3 by aid oi a sleeve' 2| screwed into said piston. Said loose connection makes the piston free from the rotation and the-guiding eiiect of the spindle, so that it moves only axially and without jamming in the stufling box. l I

In the stufling box, a sleeve 28 is fastened in the base ring I4 and extends into an annular slot 29 in the valve body head It for subdividing the packing which has a rather large radial dimension corresponding to the difference of the diameters of the difierential piston l0, it. This ensures additional tightness as well on the piston I3 as on the valve body l.

The seats of the valve consist of a hard steel ring 22, inserted in the valve diaphragm i, and of a plastic metal seat ring 26 embedded in an undercut groove of the seat piston l0. Projections 21 and 30 on the diaphragm and seat piston respectively serve as bodies protecting the seats against erosion by the streaming fluid.

I claim:

1. A'valve comprising a valve body, a diaphragm in said body, provided with a circular passage, an annular seat on top of said passage, a movable valve member of completely closed cross section for engaging said seat and closing said passage, a reciprocable piston of smaller diameter than the smallest periphery of said seat, forming part of said valve member, a hollow cylindrical valve body portion about said piston arranged concentrically to the diaphragm passage and having a sufficiently large internal diameter to allow the introduction of said valve member into said valve body, and a stufling box in the annular space between said piston and said cylindrical valve body portion and comprising a reciprocably mounted base ring exposed to the interior of the valve body over essentially the entire annular area included between the adjacent circumferences of said cylindrical valve body portion and said piston and packing in said annular space above said base ring.

2. In a valve, a valve body having an inlet and an outlet and a diaphragmbetween said inlet and outlet, said diaphragm having a circular passage, an annular seat at the top of said passage, a movable valve member closed as to crosssection for engaging said seat and closing said passage, said valve body having a neck with a passage of a diameter slightly greater than the outside diameter of said movable valve member which passage has a counter bore, a piston reciprocable in said counter bore. and being of smaller diameter than the smallest diameter of said circular passage, said piston forming part of said valve member, a valve body head having a portion located in said bounter bore, a. base ring reciprocably mounted in said counter bore and cooperating with said head portion to form a stumng box about said piston, packing in said stumng box, said base ring having a recess on its under face to receive said movable valve member when the valve is opened fully,'said base ring and said head portion having opposed annular grooves, and a sleeve located in said grooves substantially as shown and described.

JOHANN ZAGQRSH. 

